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My Fan Zine about meeting Yumi Sakugawa (one of the most raddest baddest Asian-American comic book artist) is finally done!!

You can check out her website here: http://www.yumisakugawa.com/

Hello, tumblr! This is a submissions call for a zine in the works that is focusing on Pacific Islanders! So, to all you creative Pasifika babes, send in your art work, essays, stories, photography, and whatever you have available to our publication!

As of right now there is no theme, but the focus of this zine will be, to quote one of our organizers, is "To bring focus to Pacific Islanders as Indigenous peoples and our plight to reclaim our languages, foods, islands, and ancestors while also bringing awareness to our intersectional identities and how we not only deal with racism but transphobia, homophobia, classism, sexism, and any other oppression that contributes to our own experiences and/or ties into our experiences as Pacific Islanders." so please send in anything and everything you have and spread the word so we can have an awesome first issue! 

"POC Zine-Making and Self-Preservation" Workshop with MOONROOT and Brown & Proud Press  I <3 Print Media and Transformative Arts Tracks   Allied Media Conference, Detroit, June 21, 2014. 

A week delay but it’s done! Here are some photos from the workshop and a link to the collectively made zine that everyone snapped on!! Hope everyone learned a few things about putting together a zine and the importance of having our own intentional spaces/documenting our stories as QTPOC. We are honored to have had that opportunity to share space with ya’ll and to hear your words of struggles, strength and healing. 

LA ZINE FEST ZINE (meta) by browntourage :P

The LA zine fest got me missing the feeling of putting pen to paper. The DIY aspect is so liberating- you can print whatever you want however you want! Whether the pages are filled with photos, doodles, collages, opinions, comics, poetry, or manifestos, zines provide a freeform field for people of all backgrounds to express themselves and find people who relate. 

Flocks of people gathered in the Helms Bakery district Sunday to appreciate over a hundred zine stalls. With such a diversity of styles and content, I tried to check up on women/poc run zines, and ended up taking style pics because i couldn’t not. I was so overstimulated by beauty the event itself merited a zine of its own. Here’s my online attempt.

DarkMatter is a queer South Asian performance and literary arts duo who “make noise, perform spoken word, write excessively, facilitate workshops, and flail [their] arms around.” 

Alok Vaid-Menon is a South Asian artivist who has performed & organized with queer movements around the world. They are committed to building radical queer movements and bodies that resist white supremacy and imperialism and like making art that thinks about these, and other what ifs. You can read some of their work at returnthegayze.tumblr.com and queerlibido.tumblr.com

I would really appreciate your support of my art! Please follow my art on Facebook and Tumblr. And shop Ashley Ja’nae at Society6